Multi-tag with custom tag behaviour

[JoaBack]

I would like to have a "Format" tag that behaves like "Genre" with multiple values eg that you can have both the genre "Classical" and "Opera" and "Piano solo" and "Impressionist", in this case for example "Live recording" and "Box Set", and browse one after the other.

This doesn't work out of the box, is it because of Minimserver or the control point (android BubbleUpnp), or is it something I could configure somehow?

[simoncn]

MinimServer does support this "out of the box" for Genre and any custom tag of your choice.

Which tagging program did you use when you tried to add this to your audio files? What name did you use for the tag?

What is the format of your audio files (MP3, FLAC, M4A, WAV, etc.)?

[JoaBack]

It worked when I did the tagging in mp3tag but not in fb2k, apparently.
.flac files, some .mp3.

[simbun]

(26-06-2022 23:10)JoaBack Wrote:  It worked when I did the tagging in mp3tag but not in fb2k, apparently.
.flac files, some .mp3.

In foobar there's a configuration option to specify which tags support multi value fields, have you added Format to that? If not go to 'File > Preferences > Advanced' and then in the Filter field on the top right of the window type 'Multivalue fields' (Advanced > Display > Properties via the Menu system) and append your tag to the end of the list, delimiting it with a semi-colon.

The only other obvious difference between the two tag programs is that mp3tag uses '\\' as its delimter whereas foobar uses ';'.
NOTE: These are only used for display purposes, the actual delimiters used will vary depending upon what format you're writing to.

Get it working with FLAC first as mp3tag uses a non-standard delimiter in ID3v2.3 which will confuse things further (MinimServer recommends ID3v2.4).

[JoaBack]

Thanks!
I was not aware of the Multivalue field option in foobar.

Another question, on Tag Formatting: what charset is actually used here?
I am using your suggestion from the manual to add a links to digital booklets, and would like a line break between the link and the actual %comment% when one exixts.
Something like {<linkstuff>$comment^<linebreak>^}

Do you know?

[simoncn]

All text is sent to the control point using the UTF-8 character set.

[simbun]

(27-06-2022 15:43)JoaBack Wrote:  Thanks!
I was not aware of the Multivalue field option in foobar.

There are a LOT of configuration options and it does have a bit of a learning curve, but I wouldn't be without it :-)

(27-06-2022 15:43)JoaBack Wrote:  I am using your suggestion from the manual to add a links to digital booklets, and would like a line break between the link and the actual %comment% when one exixts.
Something like {<linkstuff>$comment^<linebreak>^}

It's just HTML so you can use the html linebreak tag:

Code:

Comment.displayFormat={$*infoFileURI^<a href="^">Digital booklet</a>$comment^<br>^}